Friday, December 27, 2013

Fukushima Poisoning Global Sea Life

Russian Experts: Fukushima pollution spreads all over Earth, clearly a large
amount of fish, seaweeds, and everything in ocean has been polluted — These
products are the main danger for mankind as they can end up being eaten by
people on a massive scale

Maxim Shingarkin, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s State Duma
Committee for Natural Resources, Dec. 26, 2013:“Currents in
the World Ocean are so structured that the areas of seafood capture near the US
north-west coast are more likely to contain radioactive nuclides than even the
Sea of Okhotsk which is much closer to Japan. These products are the main danger
for mankind because they can find their way to people’s tables on a massive
scale. [...] Air emissions were not projected either on the Sea of Okhotsk, or
Sakhalin, or the Far East, or the Kuril Islands. So airlifting cargoes does not
seem dangerous so far. I mean so far because not all the nuclear fuel has been
taken out of the power generation units. This means that radioactive emissions
into the atmosphere are possible as a result of heating.”

Vladimir Slivyak, Co-chairman of the Ecodefence international
ecology group, Dec. 26, 2013: “The Russian government planned to
restrict fishing in the Far East. As far as I know, no such restrictions have
been introduced so far. Still it is possible that some steps will be taken.
[...] It took years after Chernobyl to make detailed conclusions about the scale
of nuclear pollution. We are having a similar situation with Fukushima [...]
We’ll probably know the consequences of this accident in 10-15 years. It is
clear that a large amount of fish, sea weeds and everything the ocean contains
has been polluted. It is clear that pollution spreads all over Earth. It is
clear that vast territories have been polluted in Japan itself. All this is
generally clear. But we need research to provide more details and this will take
a long time.”